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#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 15, 2011 [HINT]

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wonderful design and Lilly will need one.

lol

very nice Joe,but no way that will fit in my shed.

very nice, and I hope Lilly has room.

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Joe: i once worked for American Airlines...i drove a large forklift...a couple of times i had to fork a very large crate into the side door of the plane which was smaller than the crate...had to back myself in place then pull partially out and then get on another fork to push if off my fork into the belly of the plane. The bosses even appauded me lol

that funny video made me smile
how on earth did you find it?

I'm not surprised Tom with your award winning moves.

Tom - dexterity is needed to be a forklift driver, but intelligence is definitely what gets the job done.


Sarah - A mill is like an unholy alliance between a drill press and a router. A CNC mill is one run by a computer.

I found one that looks a lot like ours: http://postimage.org/image/2eet9ya6c/

For scale, it's about 7' tall and about 6' x 6'. Ours has a flat table without those grey guards.

We also have a cadillac of manual mills, a Bridgeport. (example: http://postimage.org/image/2egnfg5xg/ ) Ours is ~30 yrs old and still going strong (we got it used ~5 yrs ago -- the forklift to deliver it was much smaller.) It's not used so much now, as the CNC is a much cheaper way to make repetitive parts.

Thanks, Joe. How is your finger doing?

Hardly painful anymore, Sarah. The four impressions are still there, and will probably stay for a month or two, until a new crop of skin grows out. It's one advantage of being a blacksmith - limited fire invulnerability. ;)

My boss talks fondly of a t-shirt he once saw that said "You know you're a blacksmith if it's no big deal when you catch on fire." (That's "when", not "if"...)

bugaboo - I'd seen that video a few years ago, and had to look it up. I'm not sure at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was produced by John Cleese's production company. After Monty Python, he went into producing corporate training videos.

Humor is one of the best ways to get people to remember something.

i agree with the cleese possibility and with the humor comment

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